Word: pantheon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pantheon of the young business executive, there are gods of success, diligence, alertness, punctuality, timing and memo writing. But, alas, there is none for humor. That is the finding of Richard J. Cronin, who heads an executive search firm in Rosemont, Ill. Cronin polled 480 chief executive officers to ask: "Have you found that younger executives (under 35) with MBA degrees have a greater or lesser sense of humor than others?" The vast majority of those responding checked lesser...
...WATCH OUT FOR THE FOREIGN GUESTS!" CHINA ENCOUNTERS THE WEST by Orville Schell; Pantheon; 178 pages...
...King of Dahomey. Chatwin began his research nine years ago in Dahomey and returned in 1977 to find the country named the People's Republic of Benin. "The fetish priests of Ouidah," he notes, "had put pictures of Lenin amid the scarlet paraphernalia of the Thunder Pantheon...
...choices for this pantheon are, no doubt, debatable at length. Few would question the selection of a figure like Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first accredited woman doctor in the U.S. But the writers' list includes quite unimportant figures like Vita Sackville-West and Agnes Smedley, while ignoring real heroines of literature like the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. What has caused the real flap, however, is Chicago's relentless concentration on the pudenda...
Then came the interesting stuff. Thropsty Carlos Devalle snatched a Lowell fumble on the Lowell 42 to set up the second longest drive of the game. Second bests rarely merit much attention, but this drive may enter the pantheon of memorable drives because, well, it went backwards...